USEFUL BCSS PAGES
https://forum.bcss.org.uk (The BCSS Forum)
https://bcss.org.uk (BCSS home page)
ONLINE TALKS
BCSS Tuesday Zoom Talks
Succulent Broadcast Network – upcoming online talks (world-wide)
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OTHER SOCIETY PAGES
https://cactusandsucculentsociety.org (The Cactus And Succulent Society Of America)
https://www.dkg.eu (Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft e. V.)
https://sfsucculent.org (San Francisco Succulent & Cactus Society)
STUDY GROUPS
http://mesemb.org (The Mesemb Study Group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/609707212454078 (The Tephrocactus Study Group)
https://mammillaria.net (The Mammillaria Society)
http://euphorbia-international.org (Euphorbia Society)
https://www.haworthia.org (Haworthia Society)
http://www.cactus-mall.com/sedum (The Sedum Society)
http://asclepiad-international.org (The International Asclepiad Society)
http://sansevieria-international.org/journal (The International Sansevieria Society)
https://www.lithopsfoundation.com/ (The Lithops Research and Conservation Foundation)
FREE ONLINE JOURNALS
http://www.cactusexplorers.org.uk (The Cactus Explorers / inc The Chileans)
https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/subscribe.html (Cactus & Succulent Review, formerly Essex Succulent Review)
https://www.schuetziana.org (Gymnocalycium Journal)
https://xerophilia.ro (Xerophilia)
Selected Lexicons
1935 Succulent Plants Herman Jacobsen
1937 Cactaceae Britton And Rose
1937 Cacti Borg
1937 The Stapelieae Volumes 1-3 Alain White And Boyd L. Slone
1941 The Succulent Euphorbieae Volumes 1-2 Alain White, R. Allen Dyer, Boyd L. Sloane
1957 Flowering Stones And Mid-Day Flowers Dr. G. Schwantes
1960 A Handbook Of Succulent Plants – 3 Vols Herman Jacobsen
1977 Cactus Lexicon Curt Backeberg
2001 The Cactus Family Edward F. Anderson
2006 The New Cactus Lexicon David Hunt
2015 Taxonomy Of The Cactaceae Joel Lode
Selected Monographs
CACTI
1945 The Mammillaria Handbook Robert T. Craig
1957 Mammillaria – Cultivation And Characteristics C. Marsden
1968 Rebutia – Including Aylostera And Sulcorebutia C. Marsden
1969 The Cacti Of Arizona Lyman Benson
1969 The Native Cacti Of California Lyman Benson
1973 The Subgenus Tephrocactus Gilbert Leighton-Boyce & James Iliff
1975 Lobivia Walter Rausch
1980 Discocactus A. F. H. Buining
1985 Sulcorebutia And Weingartia John Pilbeam
1985 The Genus Echinocereus Nigel P Taylor
1990 To The Habitats Of Pediocactus And Sclerocactus Fritz Hochstatter
1993 The Genus Sclerocactus – Revised Fritz Hochstatter
1994 Eriosyce Fred Kattermann
1994 Pilosocereus Daniela C. Zappi
1995 Christmas Cacti – The Genus Schlumbergera And Its Hybrids Ajs Mcmillan And Jf Horobin
1995 Gymnocalycium – A Collectors Guide John Pilbeam
1995 The Genera Pediocactus – Navajoa – Toumeya – Revised Fritz Hochstatter
1996 The Genus Matucana Rob Bregman
1996 Thelocactus John Pilbeam
1998 Copiapoa – Cactus File Handbook Graham Charles
1999 Mammillaria – Cactus File Handbook John Pilbeam
2000 Uebelmannia Rudolf Schulz And Marlon Machado
2004 The Genus Turbinicarpus Milan Zachar
2005 Ferocactus John Pilbeam And Derek Bowdery
2005 The Genus Sclerocactus Fritz Hochstatter
2005 Turbinicarpus And Rapicactus – Knowing, Understanding, Growing Davide Donati And Carlo Zanovello
2006 Ariocarpus Et Cetera John Pilbeam And Bill Weightman
2006 Copiapoa 2006 Rudolf Schulz
2007 Melocacti Of Cuba Rigerszki, Delanoy, Ujreti, Vilardebo
2007 The Genera Pediocactus – Navajoa – Toumeya Fritz Hochstatter
2009 Gymnocalycium – In Habitat And Collection Graham Charles
2011 Echinocereus John Pilbeam
2011 Echinocactus Donati And Zanovello
2015 Cacti & Succulents Of Baja California John Pilbeam
2016 Small Opuntias John Pilbeam And Michael Partridge
2017 Mammillaria Now And Again John Pilbeam
2018 Rebutia, Sulcorebutia And Weingartia – Unravelled John Pilbeam
Parodia/Notocactus (the happy couple) John Pilbeam
Gymnocalycium – recounted John Pilbeam
SUCCULENTS
1953 The Gibbaeum Handbook G. C. Nel
1968 Succulents In The Veld Rolf Rawe
1983 Haworthia And Astroloba John Pilbeam
1987 Caudiciform And Pachycaul Succulents Gordon Rowley
1988 Lithops Desmond T. Cole
1992 Didiereaceae ‘Cacti Of The Old World’ Gordon Rowley
1994 Sedum – Cultivated Stonecrops Ray Stephenson
1995 Anacampseros, Avonia, Grahamia Gordon Rowley
2002 The Dumpling And His Wife Steve Hammer
2003 Crassula Gordon Rowley
2008 The Genus Echeveria John Pilbeam
2010 Lithops – Treasures Of The Veld Steve A. Hammer
2010 Stapeliads John Pilbeam
2013 A Gallery Of Agaves John Pilbeam
2013 Mesembs – The Titanopsis Group Steven Hammer
2017 The Genus Ceropegia Dennis De Kock
Succulents galore John Pilbeam
Wild Lithops Harald Jainta
Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants (VERY EXPENSIVE)
Aizoaceae A-E
Aizoaceae F-Z
Monocotyledons
Crassulaceae
Asclepiadaceae
Dicotyledons
More Techincal Books
1950 The Morphology Of Cacti Franz Buxbaum
1958 Cactus Culture Based On Biology Franz Baxbaum
1994 Threatened Cacti Of Mexico Anderson, Montes, Taylor
2002 Studies In The Opuntioideae David Hunt
2011 Mapping The Cacti Of Mexico Part 1 Hector M. Hernandez & Carlos Gomez-Hinostrosa
2014 Further Studies In The Opuntioideae David Hunt
2015 Mapping The Cacti Of Mexico Part 2 Hector M. Hernandez & Carlos Gomez-Hinostrosa
2017 Succulents In Cultivation – Breeding New Cultivars Gordon D. Rowley
Other Interesting Books
1978 The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Succulents Gordon Rowley
1994 Cacti And Succulents In Habitat Ken Preston-Mafham
1994 Succulent Compositae Gordon Rowley
1997 The History Of Succulents Gordon Rowley
2002 A Cactus Odyssey James D. Mauseth, Roberto Kiesling And Carlos Ostolaza
2004 A Sulco Gallery John Pilbeam And David Hunt
2006 Teratopia Gordon Rowley
2011 Succulent Plants Of The World Fred Dortort
2012 Cacti And Succulents For Cold Climates Leo Chance
UPDATED FROM FORUM WITH THANKS
2004 Coryphantha: Cacti of Mexico and Southern USA, by R. F. Dicht and A. D. Lüthy
2008 Sulcorebutia 2008 Ladislav Horáček
2010 Sulcorebutien, Kleinode aus Bolivien, by Willi Gertel and Wolfgang Latin (in German)
2015 Austrocactus Elisabeth & Norbert Sarnes
2020 Sulcorebutia 2020 Ladislav Horáček
1946 Lithops G.C. Nel
1950 The Aloes of South Africa Gilbert Wetacott Reynolds
1954 The Aloes of Nyasaland Gilbert Wetacott Reynolds
1966 The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar Gilbert Wetacott Reynolds
1971 Genera of the Mesembryanthemaceae Hans Herre
1976 Growing the Mesembs Ed Storms
1977 Revision of the Genus Crassula in Southern Africa (2 Vols) H R Tolken
1984-1994 Strawberry Press Euphoria Journals (10 volumes)
1993 Gasteria Ernst J. Van Jaarsveld
1993 The Genus Conophytum A Conograph Steven Hammer
1998 Adromischus Pilbeam, Rogerson & Tribble
1998 Mesembs of the World Gideon Smith
2000 Vyjies Gems of the Veld Ernst J. Van Jaarsveld
2004 Pachycaul and Caudiciform Plants Philippe de Vosjoli
2004 Tylecodons and Cotyledons Ernst J. Van Jaarsveld
2005 Echeveria Cultivars Schulz and Kapitany
2005 Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar (2 Vols) Peter V. Bruyns
2007 Aeonium in Habitat and Cultivation Rudolf Schulz
2012 Agaves Living sculptures for landscapes and containers Gregg Star
2017 Soft Succulents Jeff Moore
2021 Euphorbia in Southern Africa (2 vols) Peter V Bruyns
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